Abstract

Health economics has concern on how to find the most efficient allocation of health resources to achieve a preset policy goal. Equity, or fairness, is another important criterion that should be put into consideration by health economists and policy makers. A just distribution of health service and the needs to meet health service to the community are depended on ethical theory. And this kind of theory that elaborates in setting a just distribution of economic resources is called theory of social justice. This paper explores several examples of theories of social justice derived from philosophy of normative economy. The goal has no relation on how to find a consensus-accepted theory but to deliberate equity issues that must be kept in mind when setting a policy on allocation of health resources.